Comments on: Cyborg 2http://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/
home of Vern, critic and authorSun, 07 Jun 2020 08:16:12 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.14By: CJ Holdenhttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3398255
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 05:45:46 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3398255Oh shit, I didn’t hear about Drago’s passing.
]]>By: Jeromehttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3398249
Sat, 29 Jun 2019 22:04:44 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3398249RIP Billy Drago. I hope he didn’t die like a pig but John Bly is alive in the far-flung future, so he’ll never truly die. Time to break out my Brisco County dvds.
]]>By: Mr. Majestykhttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356925
Mon, 07 Sep 2015 16:26:59 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356925The great thing about the (MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN) joke is that it keeps getting funnier the more famous and respected Cooper gets.
]]>By: Griffhttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356918
Mon, 07 Sep 2015 08:59:58 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356918Huh, I actually saw MY LITTLE EYE once but I forgot he was in it (probably because it was well before I knew who he was).

the MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN thing will never not be funny.

]]>By: Max K.http://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356916
Mon, 07 Sep 2015 08:19:26 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356916Bradley Cooper also had a small but pivotal role in the underseen reality-TV-as-horror-movie ‘My Little Eye’. But that title just can’t be as much fun as Midnight Meat Train.
]]>By: Vernhttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356906
Sun, 06 Sep 2015 02:52:44 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356906Luckily I know if I ever forget to include the (MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN) after his name you guys will correct me.
]]>By: Mr. Majestykhttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356900
Sat, 05 Sep 2015 15:32:57 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356900As far as I’m concerned, Bradley Cooper’s name is incomplete without (MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN) on the end of it.
]]>By: KingNewbshttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356899
Sat, 05 Sep 2015 15:24:25 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356899Vern, I need you to understand that the way you reference famous movie stars by their obscure histories (as in her with Jolie) is pretty much the brightest thing about this entire universe. It always fills me with sublime happiness.

Right-o, carry on.

]]>By: MaggieMayPiehttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356896
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:25:12 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356896It’s got Lena Headey in it, so it’s got that going for it.
]]>By: AnimalRamirez1976http://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356895
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 19:20:18 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356895I saw that Antonio Banderas flick Automata and it sounds like it ripped off almost all its ideas from this one. I thought it was pretty good though. So maybe I should check out Cyborg 2.

Reading The Jungle Book is one of my most treasured childhood memories. Regardless, I have a masochistic urge to see what Stephen Sommers has done with it.

]]>By: Matthew B.http://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356890
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 12:50:15 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356890That Angelina Jolie is fine as far as she goes, I was saying, but why won’t Vern ever talk about Nardwuar the Human Serviette? and then just like that he comes through for me.
]]>By: Vernhttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356886
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 05:13:49 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356886This was actually Billy Drago Part 2s week. When planning it I missed that he’s in ASSAULT ON DEVIL’S ISLAND, which is also SHADOW WARRIORS 2, so that one will not be covered.
]]>By: Griffhttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356885
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 03:35:36 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356885It’s always funny when an A lister’s first movie is a cheesy B movie.

also Vern, if you’re going to continue with this Billy Drago kick I highly recommend Takashi Miike’s episode of MASTERS OF HORROR in which he was the star, though be prepared, it contains a lot more dead fetuses floating down rivers and needles stuck under fingernails than you may be used to.

]]>By: Toxichttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356884
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 02:06:25 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356884Here the DVD was obviously published at the time when LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER was released, the cover has a similar font and blue background and they even renamed it CASH REESE: GLASS SHADOW.

I thought it was kind of generic and boring, and to me it seemed like one of those movies where the writer keeps forgetting his own ideas as he is writing. Like, they make a big deal of that “glass shadow” stuff at the beginning, and then it leads to nothing special (other than maybe that seizure scene). Or, Cash Reese is a killing machine at the beginning, and then she’s just a poor little girl who needs to be protected by a man. Or, the bad guy sends two killers after them, and instead of working together they try to kill each other for reasons I didn’t quite understand. I don’t know, maybe I was half asleep, does the bad guy say he will only pay whoever gets the job done? If so, isn’t that counterproductive?

Anyway, a few days ago I watched SCI FIGHTERS, which mostly sucks, even though it stars Roddy Piper, but Billy Drago as another mega-acting-villain-in-a-cheap-BLADE-RUNNER-knockoff is quite entertaining in it.

]]>By: neal2zodhttp://outlawvern.com/2015/09/03/cyborg-2/#comment-3356880
Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:22:13 +0000http://www.outlawvern.com/?p=22975#comment-3356880Vern you’re going to OD on Billy Drago if this keeps up. I’m super-excited you reviewed this because I just caught this on cable (where the title screen says Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow) and it’s fresh in my mind. (Like most males with internet access, I’ve seen the sex scene from this but that’s it)

There’s a sheen and polish to this and like you pointed out with Terminator Salvation, individual screenshots would make it look like an awesome movie. There’s some intriguing ideas and good performances and likable characters, and in alot of ways it’s so much of a marked improvement over the “making home movies with my friends” feel of the first one, but there’s still a ton of amateurishness and unintentional silliness that keeps it from being great (or makes it great, who knows)

One thing that IS great – the final shot which you alluded to which weirdly moved me in ways I wasn’t expecting. And I kinda liked that sappy love song playing over the credits too, so sue me.

May I humbly suggest you close out Drago Week with his most famous mainstream role in a movie which I don’t think you’ve reviewed?